11.03.2013                      29.Adar. 5773

Gesundheit & Wissenschaft:

Health Scan: Can cancer be turned against itself?

The human immune system can use proteins from melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, to kill off cancer cells.

A small group of proteins of the Ras “family” controls a large number of cellular functions, including cell growth, differentiation and survival; because the protein has a hand in cellular division, mutated Ras – which can be detected in one-third of all tumors – contributes to many human cancers by allowing for the rapid growth of diseased cells….